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August 2018 Grocery Challenge

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  • K9sandFelines
    K9sandFelines Posts: 2,767 Forumite
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    edited 29 July 2018 at 4:10PM
    I am still on the July spend with a yearly total that averages £270 a month, but i have been lowering it each month i come under.

    So this month i would like to aim for £220.

    I have a £40 Tesco shop planned for Tuesday night which should last me through the first week or more. I may also go to Aldi with my Dad, and do an Ocado shop later on in the month; but it should still mean i am under.

    Good Luck and thanks to all.
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  • mrs_motivated
    mrs_motivated Posts: 1,608 Forumite
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    Hi All, I need to get back on track in August the bill has been creeping up for months and I'm ashamed to say when returning from shopping on Saturday I had to throw almost a bag full of shopping away from the previous week.....as someone who hates waste I can't believe I let this happen. :mad:

    So can you put me down for £320.

    This is for 3 adults, all food (breakfast, packed lunches and dinners, cleaning and toiletries ). Plus dinner for 5 once a week when my daughter and her partner visit.
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  • caronc
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    Please add me in for £140 this month, thanks
  • Mrs_Cheshire
    Mrs_Cheshire Posts: 1,252 Forumite
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    I'm hoping to keep my August spends low as we're away for part of it. I'd like to keep my spends to £350 as I've got enough meat in the freezer and some store cupboard bits to use up. Going to try and make a few cakes/biscuits to help keep costs down.
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  • caronc
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    First shop as "August" runs from 30/07 to 29/08 for me. £30 spend so £30/£140 so far.
  • stoopy
    stoopy Posts: 55 Forumite
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    Hi I'd like to join again please and even though I was under budget in July I'm going keep my budget of £475 because there are 5 Fridays in this month and that is when I do my shopping, and the kids are off school so will need to make packed lunches which I don't normally do.
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  • £4.24 spent mainly on RTC goods, hopefully that'll do me for the week, the only thing i might need is bread as there wasn't room in the freezer and it was a large RTC loaf and might not keep

    £84.24/£240
  • thriftwizard
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    Late to the party here! Please could you put me down for £400? That's perhaps a bit unambitious, as we've lost one inhabitant (DS2, gone to share a house with a friend down in the city) and will lose another in a couple of weeks when he goes back to his new uni "digs", also sharing with a friend, in the next city up the coast going east! So that's for 4 adults, 2 of them pescatarian, 4 cats, 14 chickens (hopefully going back down to 11 shortly) and 2 cockatiels. Shouldn't need anything much for the livestock, as we're well stocked-up at the moment, but the two kittens are currently eating an astonishing amount so that may vary.

    I'm allowing £400 because I'm out of practice, but am hoping to come in well under that and pull back hard until Christmas. We have one birthday this month - OH - which shouldn't be too expensive. I've now handed over day-to-day responsibility for my mother to my middle brother; we've moved her to a bungalow just 50 yards from his front door over the last month. This will make an amazing difference to the time I have available for cooking/preserving/budgeting and even housework! The allotment is in full production, and looking fairly tidy; my aim there is to re-plant as soon as things come out, so that we have plenty in the ground & well-grown for the winter.

    In other news, DD1 has taken a job at a well-known supermarket whilst polishing up the 57th draft of her novel. Which means that once she's completed her probationary period, we can take advantage of her substantial staff discount, for anything we need to buy from a supermarket. Every little helps, as they say!
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  • Hi,

    I'm new to the thread and having totted up our spends in the supermarkets over the last few months we have been spending over £600 for our family of 4 (2 adults, a 3 year old and 10 month old)! This isn't sustainable for us as I'm currently on maternity leave until September with no wage coming in.

    I'd like to reduce this gradually until it's something we're more comfortable with. So for this month I'd like to go for £500 and take it from there.

    So please can you put me down for £500 in August. I'll look to reduce that further next month.

    Thanks
  • Merlin's_Beard
    Merlin's_Beard Posts: 1,459 Forumite
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    £100 for me again, please! Hopefully achievable.
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